As most of you remember, daily early voting statistics had become as addictive as the latest polling data in the run up to November 4th.
Well, we can now go through it again: Early voting started yesterday in Georgia, and the state's SoS website is publishing early voting statistics daily (link).
About 13,000 voters cast a ballot yesterday, confirming that turnout is likely to drop dramatically in the runoff.
Furthermore, about 22% of early voters for now are African-Americans. Black voters made up more than 30% of general election voters, and African-Americans make up about 29% of the state population.
As many of you might remember, African-Americans were voting at a very high pace through the general election's early voting: they made up about 35% of the total number of early voters, and started the first week at an even higher pace (slightly lower than 40%). So that is a significant drop for now in an election that is sure to be determined by whichever party is more enthusiastic.
These are all preliminary hints, of course, and I will update with more numbers in the coming days. But that's it for now!
In other news from Senate race:
- We will finally know the results from Alaska today and it's of course highly likely that Mark Begich will emerge victorious (here's a look at what ballots remain to be counted, it looks good for Begich)!
- In Minnesota, the recount starts tomorrow but Coleman's lead just grew from 206 to 215 votes today.